Verkündigung (Das Bild in Speyer), ca. 1884

Title

Verkündigung (Das Bild in Speyer)
Illustration zu: Heinrich Steinhausen, „Irmela. Eine Geschichte aus alter Zeit“, Prachtausgabe, Leipzig: Georg Böhme, [1884], S. 87

Draughtsman

• Wilhelm Steinhausen

Part Number / Total

33 / 53

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite-clay mixture?
• chalk?
• vellum paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• pencil drawing
• pencil drawing?
• chalk drawing?

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• study after a painting
• preliminary drawing for a book illustration

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert unten links (mit grauem Stift): WSt. [ligiert]

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet unten links mit der zugehörigen Inventarnummer (mit Bleistift)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städtische Galerie

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1953

Genre

• Object depiction
• historical narration
• literary representation
• Biblical portrayal

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Gabriel (archangel)

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Heinrich Steinhausen

Illustrated Passage

• Heinrich Steinhausen: Irmela. Eine Geschichte aus alter Zeit
• Bibel, Neues Testament, Lukas 1,26-38

Primary

• 73AA522 the Annunciation: Mary sitting - AA - Mary to the left, the angel to the right
• 41A635 fenced or walled garden; 'Hortus Conclusus'
• 41A62 garden buildings
• 41A6711 flowers in a vase